Dan Pfeiffer

We've made some progress.

People are still hurting.

We need to do more.

And here are the things we're going to do.

Like, that's the message that works.

It's the version of the message Obama had to do in his first term after the 2008 financial crisis.

But Trump cannot, he just cannot do it.

And he's like, he's got to call it fake inflation.

He was interviewed by a bunch of reporters headed to the helicopter at the White House on the way to that event.

And they asked about high gas prices.

And he denied that gas prices were high and then attacked ABC News for saying the gas prices were high.

He just can't.

do it.

What people want to hear, he can't say.

And what he generally says is either sort of nonsense, or it's the kind of thing that pokes people in the eye.

In the gas prices question from yesterday, he brought up the stock market.

I remember sitting in focus groups in 2009, 2010.

And these are people, swing voters, soft Obama voters, people hurting in that economy, as so many people were.

But if anyone brought up the fact that the stock market was up

they would flip the table over in anger because that, to them, signified that all these other people were getting rich or they were doing fine and the average person weren't.